New Perspectives on Contemporary Chinese Poetry

1. Introduction: Toward a Chinese Lyrical Modernity
2. There Are no Camels in the Koran”: What Is Modern about Modern Chinese Poetry?
3. Zheng Chouyu and the Search for Voice in Contemporary Chinese Lyric Poetry
4. The View from the Buckwheat Field: Capturing War in the Poetry of Ya Xian
5. To the Heart of Exile: The Poetic Odyssey of Luo Fu
6. Steward of the Ineffable: “Anxiety-Reflex” in/as the Nature Writing of Liu Kexiang (Or: Nature Writing against Academic Colonization)
7. Opposition and Adaptation in the Poetry of Zhai Yongming and Xia Yu
8. The Ghost Enters the City: Gu Cheng’s Metamorphosis in the “New World”
9. Yan Li in the Global City
10. Poetic Memory: Recalling the Cultural Revolution in the Poems of Yu Jian and Sun Wenbo
11. Naming and Antinaming: Poetic Debate in Contemporary China
12. Online Avant-Garde Poetry in China Today

This book is a pioneering collection of scholarly articles on contemporary Chinese poetry. Contemporary Chinese poetry has long enjoyed a fervent following in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, and it is built upon one of the most glorious poetic traditions of any civilization in the world. Aside from the ground-breaking work of Michelle Yeh, Maghiel Van Crevel, and a few other scholars, however, it has been all too neglected by scholars in English. This volume brings together fresh scholarship from an array of experts on contemporary Chinese poetry in a comprehensive volume that offers readable and provocative treatments of many of the most important Chinese poets of our age.